Taichung, Taiwan, R.O.C., December 10-12, 2007

http://ISM2007.ncu.edu.tw/

Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society

In cooperation with National Science Council, Institute for Information Industry

Organized by Asia University

The IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2007) is an international forum for researchers to exchange information regarding advances in the state of the art and practice of multimedia computing, as well as to identify the emerging research topics and define the future of multimedia computing. The technical program of ISM2007 will consist of invited talks, paper presentations, and panel discussions. Submissions of high quality papers describing mature results or on-going work are invited.

Topics of Interest

Topics for submission include but are not limited to:
• Multimedia systems, architecture, and applications
• Multimedia networking and QoS
• Peer-to-peer multimedia systems and streaming
• Pervasive and interactive multimedia systems including mobile systems, pervasive gaming, and digital TV
• Multimedia meta-modeling techniques and operating systems
• Architecture specification languages
• Software development using multimedia techniques
• Multimedia signal processing including audio, video, image processing, and coding
• Multimedia tools including authoring, analyzing, editing, and browsing
• Visualization and Virtual Reality
• Multimedia and multimodal user interfaces and interaction models
• Multimedia file systems, databases, and retrieval
• Multimedia Collaboration
• Rich media enabled E-commerce
• Computational intelligence including neural networks, fuzzy logic, and genetic algorithms
• Intelligent agents for multimedia content creation, distribution, and analysis
• Internet telephony and hypermedia technologies and systems
• Multimedia security including digital watermark and encryption
• Mobile Multimedia Systems and Services

Important Dates

• April 1, 2007 Submission of workshop proposals due
• April 20, 2007 Notification of acceptance of workshop proposals due
• June 15, 2007 Submission of papers and proposals on panels & special tracks due
• June 20, 2007 Notification of acceptance of special track proposals due
• August 10, 2007 Submission of demonstration proposals due
• August 20, 2007 Notification of acceptance of papers due
• September 21, 2007 Camera-Ready copy of accepted papers due

Submission

The written and spoken language of ISM2007 is English. Authors should submit an 8-page technical paper manuscript in double-column IEEE format including authors' names and affiliations, and a short abstract electronically, following the submission guidelines available on the ISM2007 web page (http://cse.stfx.ca/~ism07/). Only electronic submission will be accepted. All papers should be in Adobe portable
document format (PDF). The paper should have a cover page, which includes a 200-word abstract, a list of keywords, and author's phone number and e-mail address. The Conference Proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. A number of the papers presented at the conference will be selected for possible publications in journals.

ISM2007 will also include a few workshops and special tracks dedicated to focused interest areas. Submissions of proposals on workshops and special tracks of emerging areas are invited. Full length papers from Workshops and Focused Tracks will be presented at ISM2007, and included in the Proceedings. Please visit the conference website for detailed guidelines on submitting workshop and special track proposals.

Submissions of proposals on panels and demonstrations are also encouraged. A short demo article (up to 3 pages) and panel summary articles may also be included in the conference proceedings. Guidelines for submitting panel and demo proposals are available on the conference website.